Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit Market Archetype Mechanical Natural
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Structural Deficit

What does this mean?

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

The Path Forward

The Truth-Teller

Forces necessary, painful cuts to preserve the core. It demands that the organization stop borrowing from its future and align its current programmatic output with actual sustainable revenue.

The Truth-Teller
The Truth-Teller
Institutional Health Scores
5-yr trend: Structural Deficit
Overall
36
Score
Governance
55
Score
Financial
5
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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2014
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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 7.5% 36 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2022 5.7% 40 Fragile Decline Risk
2021 5.8% 50 Fragile Recovery
2020 6.5% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 38 Fragile Recovery
2018 4.8% 37 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 4.8% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2016 4.2% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2015 4.1% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2014 5.6% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 4.9% 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2012 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JOHN R REID Executive Director Hidden
TRISH BLOCK Board Member
LESLIE COBER Board Member
CHRIS GARCIA Board Member
RAMSEY GOODRICH Board Member
LOU HEUMANN Board Member
CHAD LABONTE Board Member
RYAN MORAN Board Member
EDWARD ORENSTEIN Board Member
MICHAEL SMITH Board Member
BILL SONDHEIM Board Member
JAMES WACKERMAN Board Member
FRANK POMER CHAIRMAN
MICHAEL MITRI VICE CHAIRMAN
PETE BURNS Treasurer

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JOHN R REID PRODUCING EXECUTIVE DIRECT Hidden
TRISH BLOCK Board Member
LESLIE COBER Board Member
CHRIS GARCIA Board Member
RAMSEY GOODRICH Board Member
LOU HEUMANN Board Member
CHAD LABONTE Board Member
RYAN MORAN Board Member
EDWARD ORENSTEIN Board Member
MICHAEL SMITH Board Member
BILL SONDHEIM Board Member
JAMES WACKERMAN Board Member
FRANK POMER CHAIRMAN
MICHAEL MITRI VICE CHAIRMAN
PETE BURNS Treasurer

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JOHN REID PRODUCING EXECUTIVE DIRECT Hidden
ALLISON ZIERING WALMARK Board Member
BILL SONDHEIM Board Member
BRAD PURCELL Board Member
CARTER WEIL Board Member
CHAD LABONTE Board Member
CHRIS GARCIA Board Member
EDWARD ORENSTEIN VICE CHAIRMAN
JAMES WACKERMAN Board Member
JAMIE ORVIS Board Member
LESLIE COBER GENTRY Board Member
MICHAEL MITRI Board Member
MICHELLE QUINN Board Member
PETE BURNS Board Member
RYAN MORAN Board Member
SETH COOPER Board Member
TRISH BLOCK Board Member
CHARLIE MACDONALD Secretary
FRANK POMER Treasurer
LOU HEUMANN Board President
MATT REBOLD Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JOHN REID PRODUCING EXECUTIVE DIRECT Hidden
ALLISON ZIERING WALMARK Board Member
BILL SONDHEIM Board Member
BRAD PURCELL Board Member
CHRIS GARCIA Board Member
TRISH BLOCK Board Member
CHAD LABONTE Board Member
JAMES WACKERMAN Board Member
LESLIE COBER GENTRY Board Member
EDWARD ORENSTEIN VICE CHAIRMAN
MICHAEL MITRI Board Member
MICHELLE QUINN Board Member
PETE BURNS Board Member
RYAN MORAN Board Member
CARTER WEIL Board Member
SETH COOPER Board Member
JAMIE ORVIS Board Member
LOU HEUMANN Board President
MATT REBOLD Board Member
FRANK POMER Treasurer
CHARLIE MACDONALD Secretary
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
5 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
55 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
36 / 100
Priority Review

The three components combine into a single 0–100 score weighted as shown. Full methodology →

Peer comparison

Compared to 130 other orgs in CT with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 34 points below the peer median (5 vs. 39).

5-year trend: Structural Deficit

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

What's driving this score

What would change this score

The two changes that would most improve this score:

  1. Build cash reserves to at least 3 months of operating expenses — moves financial resilience score meaningfully (~10 points).

Improving governance is a board decision. These are the levers.